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Originally Posted by mr3856a
He took the actual frequencies of the shafts; they were labeled S and on the frequency chart they came out as X-flexes. He's more clever than the average bear 
I know what you're saying, but all I'm saying is that when it comes to "S's" and "X's" the number of steps is the most obvious difference. I can buy a roll of "S-300 or S-400" labels and put them on any shaft I choose, but the shaft itself "is what it is" regardless of how it's labeled.
Well, DG S-400's weigh 130 grams, plus they were 1/2 over, making them slightly heavier. The Rifle Lites check in at 112 grams at standard length and mine are 3/4's over. So they are 18g lighter - give or take 15% - and I certainly notice the difference. |
See, I'm not understanding the "slightly heavier" part. True Temper iron shafts (assuming parallel tip shafts), are all manufactured at 41 inches and and as you say an "S-400" weighs 130 grams (actually it should be 134 grams), so that means that the shaft is 41 inches and 134 grams.
That can't change.
Whether you trim them 1/2-inch longer, or 1-inch shorter or hard-step them, or soft-step them, they all start out as 41-inch-long, 134 gram shafts, so no matter how they're set up, they can't weigh more than they did when you got them.
Yes, a shaft, let's say for a 7-iron, trimmed 1/2-inch longer than standard will weigh more than the same shaft trimmed to normal length for the same club but it can't weigh more than its raw weight, so I'm not understanding how it can be "heavier".
Even your new Rifles. If they start out as 112 gram shafts, then that's as much as they can ever weigh regardless of how they're trimmed. I'm not saying that one shaft is better than another, all I'm saying is that no shaft can weigh more - once it's installed - than it did when it was purchased.
And yes, there is quite a difference in feel as well as clubhead speed when you go from a heavy shaft in the 130 gram range to a lighter shaft in the low one-teens and I would expect that you can swing them a bit faster and the fatigue-factor is reduced as well.
I was just puzzled by "Al's" comment about fatigue referring to your original shafts actually being "X's" instead of "S's" because their weights are virtually identical, so that even if you had the "correct" shafts installed, they'd weigh the same.
-JP